{"id":8006,"date":"2011-12-17T17:57:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T21:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=8006"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T17:19:13","slug":"my-new-lapkiddie-pool-is-named-digital-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2011\/12\/17\/my-new-lapkiddie-pool-is-named-digital-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"My New Lap\/Kiddie Pool is Named Digital Basics…."},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This is my recently finished pool. Below some will enjoy the construction sequence. Thanks to Jim Litzenberg who created about half of the images below in my absence. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

My New Lap\/Kiddie Pool is Named Digital Basics….<\/h3>\n

When I was younger I loved to play three-man basketball. Fifteen or twenty hours a week in college and beyond. Thanks to my bad left knee and more, those days are long gone. In my thirties I jogged six days a week, up to six miles. Very, very slowly. The knee and a bad back put an end to that. In my forties long health walks were pretty much my only exercise. In my fifties, then living in Florida as I do now, I purchased a Stairmaster for my home and used it often when I was not traveling. Now in my sixties the walking has been about it. If I jog as few as 25 steps my left knee comes a calling, and three days on the Stairmaster has the same result. <\/p>\n

When I was at my Mom’s on Long Island in August I started swimming laps in the community pool at Timber Ridge in Holbrook. (I had loved to swim as a kid.) It was fun, it provided some much needed cardio-vascular exercise, and it lowered my blood sugar levels a lot. And swimming does not stress the joints like basketball, jogging, and the Stairmaster. Unless you over-do it which of course I did. But I switched from the crawl to an easy breast stroke and within a week my shoulders were fine. <\/p>\n

When I got home I began to consider building a lap pool in my backyard. Once I made the decision things moved quickly. (I quickly rejected the idea of a “small swim against the current” pool.) I hired Ron Sullins of Casual Way Pools<\/a> in nearby Lake Wales despite the fact that others offered to build the “same” pool for $10,000 less… I was 100% confident in Ron from the moment that I met him. My plans for a lap pool with a kiddie pool sidecar were unique; Ron listened carefully, assured me that he could build it, and wrote up a quote. Within days a signed contract was in place. For the largest backyard pool that Ron had built in his 30 years in the business. I had thought that the pool of my dreams would cost about $35,000. The price tag for the finished pool that you see above was $67,000. Thus the name “Digital Basics.” At the time of construction we had sold about 3,350 copies of Digital Basics at (only) $20 each. Do the math… Here’s a huge thank you to all who have purchased Digital Basics (and of course to all who regularly visit the BAA On-Line store and to those who attend IPTs and seminars). <\/p>\n

The pool was ready for swimming when I got back from Bosque. As you might guess, I dove right in and started swimming a half mile twice a day. By the fourth day I had trashed my shoulders again. When I was 12, my Mom, who is sitting beside me as I type, said, “This child does not know the meaning of the word moderation.” I guess that some things never change….<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Above: trimming the one oak tree that needed to be sacrificed… <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The first cut…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Timber…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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A most humble beginning…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Digging the pool.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The gravel allowed them to work around the ground water; we had had record huge rains just before they began…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Beginning the framing work. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Framing complete. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Foreman Patrick and crew building the side support walls. That’s Glenn on the left and Piggy in the back. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Side support walls and reinforced steel grid in place. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Applying gunnite to the bottom of the pool. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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And to the sides…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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More floor work; note the roughed out steps in the kiddie pool corner.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Working towards perfection…<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Gunnite shell complete. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Patrick landscaping :). <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The supply truck hauled just about everything to the job site. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Relocating the home air conditioner compressor\/condenser unit. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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A\/C unit move complete. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Destroying the old “new” patio. (I added two large rooms to my home last year, my new large office with the 60 inch flat screen and a large gallery room.) <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Installing the decorative blue tiling. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The completed, tiled pool shell ready for the deck to be poured. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Pouring the deck. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Finishing the deck. This crew–like the crews of all the other sub-contractors, settled only for perfection. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The completed deck. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The patio roof.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Framing for the screened-in pool enclosure completed. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Adding the screening. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The completed pool enclosure (with screening). <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Applying the final blue plaster finish. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Pretty much complete but for the pool machinery and lots of clean-up work. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Heater\/Chiller on the right, (saltwater) filtration system in the center. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Adding that most necessary component: water. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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The filled pool after clean-up with the non-skid decorative finish applied to the deck. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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A view of the completed pool from just outside my office. The lap section is 60 feet long by 12 feet wide, 4 1\/2 to five feet deep in the center of the lane. The shallower kiddie pool section for my four grandkids is 15 feet by 15 feet. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Looking back down the swim lane towards my home. My office is just inside the French doors that were suggested by Denise Ippoltio before the pool was even a dream. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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A view of the kiddie pool section. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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A fabulous job well done by all. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This is my recently finished pool. Below some will enjoy the construction sequence. Thanks to Jim Litzenberg who created about half of the images below in my absence. <\/p>\n

My New Lap\/Kiddie Pool is Named Digital Basics…. <\/p>\n

When I was younger I loved to play three-man basketball. Fifteen or twenty hours a week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-90","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}